Magnificent Mile Lights Festival

I dove into the world of podcasting a few minutes after 11 p.m. on Saturday on the stage inside the Vittum Theater, when I was asked by a charming woman named Sarah Thyre to explain why the end of the movie "Spartacus" makes me cry.

I was being interviewed in front of a live audience of a few dozen people for her podcast called "Crybabies." She is an actor and writer who normally tapes the show in Los Angeles. Its usual co-host is Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer and author of such best-selling books as "The Orchid Thief" and "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend." Filling in for Orlean here was the actor/teacher/writer and all-around...

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